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...rebounding in 1999 with such hits as The Matrix, a sci-fi action flick, and the mob comedy Analyze This. The Daly-Semel formula centered on the relationships the two had with stars like Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood and producers like Joel Silver. The movies were big--Lethal Weapon, Unforgiven--the dollars were bigger, and everyone got a piece of the action, including the studio bosses, who each reportedly earned some $25 million annually...
...mighty surplus takes away the conservatives' most powerful weapon. In the campaign to roll back the welfare-state programs they hated, the deficit was an all-purpose weed whacker. Year after year, Republicans lived without big new tax cuts in return for the Democrats' giving up any hope of new spending. In that climate of discipline, the surplus took root. But it is much harder to keep those restraints in place when the Treasury seems awash in money. And those crowd-pleasing tax cuts? Though Republicans last week proposed a new capital-gains-tax reduction, it turns out the dreamy...
Equally striking is the way the public's view of the Spetsnaz has changed. Ten years ago, the special forces were regarded as the country's secret weapon, the men who had overthrown the President of Afghanistan in his own palace and would strike deep inside Western Europe if a new world war broke out. This has changed. The most popular video in Russia last year was Schizophrenia. An unremittingly bleak portrayal of modern Russia, it tells the story of a Spetsnaz-type officer who is framed by the security police and then forced to assassinate a banker planning...
...February I was ordered to cross the Line of Control and climb some mountains that the Indians controlled. My commanding officers would not allow me to take my rifle. I was against going to an Indian hill without a weapon, but I saw everybody who was being sent across the Loc was going there empty-handed. We were told it was for the sake of secrecy. It took us three days of walking and climbing to reach the Indian posts. We found they were empty. Our job was to prepare makeshift bunkers...
...guard, a red-haired, 300-lb. Irishman named Rory Vertigan, wings the shooter, who drops the Lincoln into reverse, slams into Vertigan's car and comes out flashing metal. Vertigan, his gun empty, rushes the driver, rips his gun away, throws him to the pavement and hands the weapon to another civilian just on the scene, ordering him to stand watch while Vertigan rushes to Atkinson and sees he has been shot...